We're on vacation in Monterey, going to the aquarium tomorrow and whale-watching on Sunday. We had some excitement last night — our upstairs washing machine overflowed, and we drained about 20 gallons of water through some holes I drilled in the living room ceiling!

That lawnmower I'm posing with is my new rechargeable electric mower. It's very quiet, works like a million bucks, and there's no cord. I couldn't find one anywhere locally, so I ordered it from Amazon, and the weekend after it came, I wired an outlet and an overhead light with a light switch in my garden shed so I wouldn't have to keep it in the garage.

The picture of the pool shows some strange items floating about called Solar Sun Rings — they're supposed to make the pool several degrees warmer, and I hope they work because I now own 14 of the things, and they are obscenely not cheap.

New Toy!	The Deluge	Ceiling Pee
Solar Sun Rings	Up a Tree	This space inten- tionally left blank.

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posted by Chris at 9:08 PM Permalink |

 
Last Thursday, we had our once a year every few years snowfall that actually amounted to enough to play in. I went out late in the evening and took this picture of our pool in the snow - it's a little grainy looking because it's a long exposure with available light. Click for a bigger version. (It was much prettier in real life.)

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posted by Chris at 11:37 PM Permalink |

 

Is this the Amazon?	Spiderweb (Not on LSD)	Is this sad, or what?
Grilled bacon	Ham & Cheese Panini	Pretty in pink?

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posted by Chris at 11:20 PM Permalink |

 
If you're an APG&ONS fan, thanks for sticking by me. I haven't blogged for a little over three months, because we moved to a new house, with a cool inground pool and this really neat stained glass window. The new place also has a tree swing for Emily — and if you look really closely, you might notice that I have a special splint on my left foot — I broke it about 4 days before the big move.

Here's a picture of Emily with a lizard.

If I were blogging, I'd say something like click on that image of the two hair ads — it looks to me like if you have curly hair, you need to straighten it; if you have straight hair, you need to curl it; and whatever color your hair happens to be, it shouldn't be, so do something that appears to be really painful, judging from the picture on the box.

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posted by Chris at 11:48 PM Permalink |